Mobile broadband and wireline broadband have always existed in their own separate worlds. With wireline broadband standards defined by the Broadband ...
Metaswitch is very pleased to be among the founding members of OpenECOMP. As one of the first four announced vendors in AT&T’s Domain 2.0 program ...
One of the biggest frustrations that service providers currently have with implementing network functions virtualization (NFV) is on-boarding virtual ...
I attended SDN World Congress in The Hague a couple weeks ago and among many meetings there I had a conversation with David Snow, Principle Analyst ...
NFV and SDN both play key roles in the ongoing evolution of telco networks to support flexible, programmable and composable services on a generic ...
Many of the network operators that we are talking to about virtualized network functions (VNFs) are investing heavily in building specially ...
NFV can’t be a clean break from the past; it’s got to coexist with what’s already out there in the network. And there are some good technologies that ...
Open can mean different things to different people in the context of NFV, but it plays a very significant role.
There’s a debate going on about how much we should let standards bodies specify NFV versus how much we should just rely on de facto standards. I ...
Service providers typically have an IT infrastructure which is running cloud and virtualization today. They also have a bunch of physical network ...
Open Platform NFV (OPNFV) and the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group are both very much collaborative activities, and there is a lot of sharing ...
Network operators have highlighted elastic scalability as one of the most important new capabilities that network functions virtualization (NFV) ...